Quotes from Charles Kettering
And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
- Charles Kettering
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
- Charles Kettering
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
- Charles Kettering
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
- Charles Kettering
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
- Charles Kettering
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
- Charles Kettering
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
- Charles Kettering
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
- Charles Kettering
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
- Charles Kettering